What’s with all these fancy economic algorithms that supposedly explain what goes down (or up) on Wall Street but are unintelligible to the average American? Why not make a new model that everyone can understand — and that’s always on the up-and-up? Stephen Colbert gives it a crack in this clip from his April 1 show.

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